Ecclesiastes 4:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 23:29 : 29 ‹For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed› [are] ‹the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.›
  • Job 3:10-16 : 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11 ¶ Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
  • Job 3:22 : 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
  • Ps 55:6-9 : 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest. 9 ¶ Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 2:17 : 17 ¶ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he. 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. 5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.
  • Jer 9:2-3 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 20:17-18 : 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me]. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 ‹And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!›

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Eccl 4:2
    83%

    2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

  • Eccl 3:22
    79%

    22 Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 4:4
    78%

    4 ¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

    6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

    16 [There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 3:12
    77%

    12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Eccl 6:8-12
    5 verses
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    8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

    9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

    10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

    11 ¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

    12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:3
    77%

    3 If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.

  • Eccl 1:3
    76%

    3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.

    25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?

  • Eccl 2:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

    22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

  • Eccl 4:6-9
    4 verses
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    6 Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

    7 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

    8 There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.

    9 Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 ¶ The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

    10 Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

  • Eccl 2:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

    12 ¶ And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

    13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

  • Eccl 2:16-19
    4 verses
    75%

    16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

    17 ¶ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

    19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.

  • Eccl 1:14
    75%

    14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 7:2
    75%

    2 [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.

  • Eccl 3:15
    74%

    15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

  • Eccl 9:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

    4 ¶ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

  • Eccl 8:17
    74%

    17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

  • Eccl 8:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 ¶ All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

    10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

  • Eccl 6:1
    74%

    1 ¶ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:

  • Eccl 11:8
    74%

    8 But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

  • Eccl 3:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

    10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

    15 All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

  • Eccl 8:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 ¶ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:13
    73%

    13 ¶ Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

  • Eccl 9:13
    73%

    13 ¶ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me:

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